We have a faculty network committed to give support to academic exchanges and local experiences in Abya Yala to counter the erasure of Indigenous and Black knowledges in the academe.
We support the formation of Countercolonial Cuias (Gourd Bowls) and their Confluence in Abya Yala to reframe science and technology beyond western thinking.
We are structuring a library centered on the knowledges of Indigenous and Quilombola peoples curated by the communities to increase the representation of other knowledges in academia.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity (Pluriversidad•e Abya Yala) is a network of Indigenous universities and traditional universities in Abya Yala (the Americas) that aim to counterpoint epistemic erasures in academia by supporting the circulation of Indigenous people and knowledges in the affiliated institutions, as well as Black people and knowledges that honor the alliances between Indigenous and Black people against settler colonialism and the history of bodies and territories of resistance in villages (aldeias, aldeas), cumbes, palenques, quilombos, etc., and urban territories.
The Abya Yala Pluriversity is founded on the principle of a pluriversal world, where the respect and recognition of plural ways of knowing and being guide our activities.
For that, it is also based on the principles of interconnectedness and autonomy.
Miguel Ángel Cárdenas Garza is a Mexican professional focused on community development, communication, and social research. Based in Creel, Chihuahua,...
Marilia is an artist-researcher rooted in the urban quilombo Casa Tainã, in Campinas, and connected to the free communication and...
My name is Jaime Armando Palma Aguirre, originally from the community of Kwéchi, located in the southern part of the...
Gabriel Santos de Oliveira is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Virginia (UVA) and holds a BA...
My name in Portuguese is Cleonice Maria da Silva. In the tradition of my people, I am Toá Kãnynã, which...
Ytxaha belongs to the Pankararu and Pataxó peoples and is a member of the Cinta Vermelha Jundiba village, located in...
Pérola Juliana, originally from Aracaju, Sergipe (Brazil), is an undergraduate student in Dance Education at UFS (Federal University of Sergipe)...
Bárbara is a Postdoctoral researcher in conservation ecology at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC) in partnership with the...
Kiado Cruz is a specialist at the critical intersection of internet governance, the fundamental rights of Indigenous peoples and communities,...
Dr. Catalina Hernández-Cabal (she/her) is a Colombian-American feminist artist, educator, and scholar whose work is rooted in dance improvisation, somatic...
Payayá Indigenous. Active in the Payayá Indigenous Associative Movement (MAIP), dedicated to Indigenous education and to historical and geographical research...
Maria Cortez Salviano is a PhD Candidate in Social Sciences at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, with a 6-month research...
Is an event that is being planned to happen in the Amazon region that aims to be an infrastructure of knowledge to explore the notion of pluriversality, counter-, de- and anticoloniality as foundations for a science and technology project in Abya Yala.
Do you want to know more and be part of it? These are the people who are already part of Pluriversity and can be contacted, then, you can find out more about the Initiative, talk about ideas and projects.
(Originally written in Spanish) I am Yunuen Torres Ascencio, a P’urhépecha woman who has lived the defense of the territory from the core. I come